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Marcus Lambkin aka Shit Robot returns with his third full length album for DFA Records, entitled What Follows. The 11-track album was conceived and recorded at Marcus home studio in a small town outside Stuttgart; worked on in various New York studios and then mixed over the course of 11 intense, coffee-fuelled days in DFA labelmate Juan Macleans New Hampshire studio.

The album follows Lambkins previous long-players From The Cradle To The Rave (2010) and We Got A Love (2014), which drew plaudits from the likes of The Guardian and Pitchfork and featured Reggie Watts and James Murphy among the array of contributors.

The Dublin-born producer has enlisted the help of a stellar cast of guests for What Follows, with previous collaborators Alexis Taylor (Hot Chip) and DFA stablemates Museum Of Love and Nancy Whang returning, alongside new faces Jay Green and leftfield fellow Dubliner New Jackson.

What Follows marks a departure in Lambkins process a simple, but fundamental one: getting away from the computer. He said: This record is a lot more analog than We Got A Love, almost all of it comes from connecting machines together and playing around. What was your biggest influence? Drum machines. What began in Stuttgart was followed up on in New York, before being finished in an 11-day blitz in New Hampshire with Juan Maclean. I wanted it to reflect my DJing style a bit more, less pop, less disco, more machines. Theres no live bass and barring a few hi-hats, theres no live drums.

Alexis Taylor turns in two memorable performances on lead track End Of The Trail and album opener In Love; Museum Of Love Pat Mahoney and Dennis McNany lend the album title track an air of something mined from the two months in between the death of Joy Division and the birth of New Order and Nancy Whang gave such a strong vocal for Lose Control that Lambkin and Maclean threw out the existing track and recorded the backing along with the vocal in one take, with the two producers working the machines live. Lambkin: I had so much fun with Lose Control and it inspired me to make so much more music. Ive written 12 new tracks since finishing the record.

Coloured vinyl double LP (one green disc, one orange) plus digital download code.